A cooperation between KonsortSWD/ NFDI4Society and the BMBF initiative for the promotion and conservation of biodiversity and the project “SLInBio - Urban lifestyles and the valorization of biodiversity - dragonflies, grasshoppers, bumblebees and co” enabled the interdisciplinary cooperation in the preparation of the now published interview data set:

Stein, Melina; Sattlegger, Lukas (2025): Insektenfreundliches Gärtnern in Frankfurt am Main - Transkripte der Interviews [dataset]. Qualiservice, PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.975349.

The dataset contains 25 transcripts of qualitative interviews conducted in the framework oft he BMBF funded project "SLInBio - Urban lifestyles and the Valorisation of biodiversity: dragonflies, grasshoppers, bumblebees and Co" which was carried out by Melina Stein and Lukas Sattlegger from October 2020 to May 2025 at the Institute for Social-Ecological Research (ISOE) in Frankfurt / Main.

The project investigated how the perception and appreciation of insects can be increased and what contribution cities can make to preserving insect diversity. To this end, socio-ecological causal relationships between the lifestyles and everyday practices of city dwellers and urban insect diversity were analyzed. The aim of this study was to investigate the connection between lifestyles, the relationship to nature, attitudes towards insects and the gardening practices of Frankfurt gardeners with regard to insect diversity.

During June and July 2022, a total of 31 interviews with a duration of 37 to 81 minutes were conducted. Since the study focused on insect-friendly gardening practices, people were interviewed who have their own garden at home ("home garden") or who cultivate an allotment plot as a member of a parcel garden association. As a result, five types of gardeners were developed, each of which is distinguished by specific correlations between lifestyle-specific basic orientations, references to nature, attitudes towards insects and gardening practices. The types of gardeners reveal the diversity and complexity of gardeners as well as their potential and opportunities for insect-friendly gardening.

The anonymized transcripts are available for scientific secondary analyses and for academic teaching. This dataset offers potentials for scientific reuse e.g. within comparative studies in other cities or countries, or for longitudinal studies in order to investigate changes in the perceived relevance of insect-friendly gardening. The related quantitative data of this mixed methods study are archived at GESIS.